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An update on Cars Land

The Cars Land addition at Disneyland Resort in California will open in about 15 months. It’s based on the fictional Route 66 town of Radiator Springs in the 2006 Disney-Pixar movie “Cars,” and Cars Land no doubt will get a nice bump in interest after “Cars 2” hits theaters this June.

I found out that YouTube contains several good sneak previews of what Cars Land will look like. First, here’s the artist’s rendering first unveiled in September 2009:

In June, Disney provided an update of what Cars Land would look like. The neon lighting in Radiator Springs looks particularly exciting: